Written and reported by Elston Gunn
MINNEAPOLIS - A car basically ate it in the middle of the People of Praise houses in Dinkytown. Steve, who lives in a neighboring house, knew there were problems with his car and only moved it to where it was feasted on because of a city ordered street cleaning (yeah you know how serious they are about keeping this area sand and broken glass free). The car said it had electrical problems, and boy was she right. The fire brought out everyones inner eye-witness reporter as neighbors gathered with their cell phones and hand held cameras pointed at the action and still managed not to talk to each other. I think they were listening to the Ladder 49 soundtrack on their ipods. Passing traffic was stopping to capture some cell phone pictures and almost created more accidents, which would have been great because I had my camera out too. In due time, the MFD arrived after Colleen Murray dialed the fuzz. Eventually the firemen showed that fire who’s who. Ya heard me car windows! Then the Minnesota Daily arrived way after the fact and somehow still managed to take a disgustingly liberal and bias account of the action and interviewed some fratboys with their shirts off who talked to a guy who’s friend heard the sirens but was too busy digging into the 13th the episode of Entourage he illegally downloaded that day to get up and look to see what happened. Shortly afterward, people ran inside afraid that they might meet their neighbors or get sunburned. But come to think of it why do we all go sun tanning prespringbreakage? Car fires I tell ya, car fires. We train for this people.
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